Short Creamery Poems

Some people churn out
haiku poems like a Land
O'Lakes creamery!...

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Spread it on toast,
slather it on an English muffin.
Use it in your milkshake,
to make a smoothie,
top off a sundae or
crown a banana split.

Drop a dollop on a cracker
and plop it in your mouth.

Put it on a plate,
mixed with tiny chunks
of real creamery butter,
then spoon onto a
piping hot biscuit.

Rich, dark, tantalizing . . .
one of life's sweet joys,
   Huckleberry Jam....

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Lips mops caress waterfalls crash metallic nerve laughing gas confession 
watermelon sugar sister scissors 
clocks tick loud like shaved ambergris 
Laminated kerosene lamps illuminate
Evanescence oblivious presence 
Skull bird knives spike of peachy creamery 
Pentagram ouija board machinery’
Throats chokes, nose pinched in bleached milkshakes. tiny ears buried speechless

Mousetrapped.

I gave it all...

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 Sugary white snow
Dips smothered in sweet sauces; 
how it cools my steamy palate.

A cocoa flood in a butterscotch, 
strawberry ocean, 
is a playground for peppy, 
non-perils and nuts; 
my banana-boat oasis, 
topped with life’s spices.

Cinnamon-ginger bursts 
spark vivid daydreams 
of childhood summers; 
a tasty refuge for the palate.

The creamery of life, bestows great joy;
to savor all of its toppings is…miraculous!
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